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Learn Clip Studio Paint - Second Edition

By : Liz Staley
Book Image

Learn Clip Studio Paint - Second Edition

By: Liz Staley

Overview of this book

Clip Studio Paint, the successor to Manga Studio, is used by over four million illustrators and comic creators around the world. This book will guide you through every step of learning this software, from system requirements and installation, all the way through to exporting your work for print or the web. Learn how to create new documents, customize tools to fit your working style, use ruler tools to create anything from straight lines to intricate backgrounds, add 3D elements, create comic panels using the specialized panel tools, utilize screentones and materials, add text and word balloons to your comics, create sound effects, easily flat and color your comics using reference layers, and bring your drawings to life using the animation features. By the end of this book, you will be able to navigate the Clip Studio Interface and program preferences, customize the various tools, and be able to create your own black-and-white and color illustrations and comics from start to finish.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)

Vector Layers and the Material Palette

One of the benefits of using Clip Studio Paint is that it is capable of producing both raster and vector images. In fact, raster and vectors can be achieved on different layers in the same canvas simply by creating the corresponding layer type. Creating vectors in Clip Studio Paint, however, is different in many ways to other vector programs.

Vector images are different from raster images. Raster images are made up of small squares of color, called pixels. Raster images are used in many situations, but they do have some disadvantages—mainly that since they are composed of pixels, they lose quality when made larger. Vector images are made of points that are connected together in the program, and are able to be edited on the fly and resized at will without a loss in quality.

In this chapter, we will learn about both how to create vectors...